רָהַן, Hif. הִרְהִין (a contract, of רהבן, cmp. רַהֲבוֹנָא a. Lat. arrha; v. עֵרָבוֹן) to deposit as a pledge, contrad. to מִשְׁכֵּן to take a pledge. Tosef. Maas. Sh. I, 1 מעשר שני … ואין מַרְהִינִין אותו ed. Zuck. (Var. מְהַרְהִינִין) second tithes must neither be sold, nor taken or given as a pledge; Y. ib. I, 52ᶜ top. Ib. עבר והי׳ וכ׳ if he pledged it in defiance of the law, he is fined. Pes. 31ᵃ כשהִרְהִינוֹ אצלו when he deposited it (the leavened matter) with him (the gentile) as a pledge. Ib.ᵇ; a. e.